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UnitedHealth Group (
UNH) pushed the Health Services industry lower today making it today's featured Health Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.5%. By the end of trading, UnitedHealth Group fell 87 cents (-1.6%) to $55.21 on average volume. Throughout the day, 6.7 million shares of UnitedHealth Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $55.21-$56.04 after having opened the day at $55.84 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $56.08. Other companies within the Health Services industry that declined today were:
Invacare Corporation (
IVC), down 6.5%,
ResMed (
RMD), down 6.5%,
Rockwell Medical (
RMTI), down 4.4%, and
LCA-Vision (
LCAV), down 4.4%.

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UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health and well-being company in the United States. UnitedHealth Group has a market cap of $57.01 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate UnitedHealth Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates UnitedHealth Group as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, revenue growth, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.